Graham Brown

Writing itself is a dream. There are days of self doubt and deadlines and wondering how you're going to pay the bills until you write that bestseller. But it's still the best job I've ever had. I've also been able to help a lot of people and even inspire a few and that feels great.

American Writer

Christian Bale

All of the muscles were gone, so that was a real tough time of rebuilding all of that. But you have a deadline, you have an obligation. You've said that you will commit to this part, and I just can't live with myself for not really giving it as much as I can.

Welsh Actor

Harold Prince

Artistic self-indulgence is the mark of an amateur. The temptation to make scenes, to appear late, to call in sick, not to meet deadlines, not to be organized, is at heart a sign of your own insecurity and at worst the sign of an amateur.

American Producer

John C. Mather

When you have a deadline, or when you know that your equipment is about to go up in a rocket and you won't have another chance to fix it, your mind works in a way that it otherwise never would.

American Scientist

Oscar Hammerstein II

Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.

American Musician

John Dyer

The lifestyle that an artist can have, the freedom to wander in the landscape with no real pressure or deadlines, was a very attractive one.

Artist

Frank Zappa

Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid.

American Singer

Kelly Sue DeConnick

Because of the nature of monthly comics and deadline, I pretty much have to work on whatever's on fire, I'm afraid.

Yoko Ono

The thing that would most improve my life is 27 hours in a day. I could meet all my deadlines.

American Artist

Dan Jenkins

I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.

American Author

In contexts where meeting the deadline is critical, prioritize tasks to avoid missing it.

Prioritization Strategy

Managing your time well is key to meeting deadlines without stress.

Time Management

Missing a deadline can lead to penalties, extra fees, or loss of opportunities.

Consequences

Understand 'deadline' in history refers to a boundary not to be crossed, not a time limit.

Historical Context

In historical contexts, crossing a deadline had severe, often fatal, consequences.

Grave Seriousness

Today, 'crossing the deadline' can also mean doing something forbidden or risky.

Figurative Usage

The publishing deadline is crucial in print media to keep publication schedules on track.

Industrially Specific

Plan your work ahead of the publishing deadline to avoid last-minute stress.

Proactive Planning

 not until you've gone out and done the hard work to get some momentum, to get things going. There's also all kinds of important things outside of your career that don't involve any deadlines, like seeing your family or exercising and taking care of your health, working on your relationship or getting out of a relationship that isn't working.

Why you procrastinate --...

 And I thought about this, and I said, well, if the procrastinator's system works, then what's going on? Why are all of these people in such a dark place? Well, it turns out that there's two kinds of procrastination. Everything I've talked about today, the examples I've given, they all have deadlines. And when there's deadlines,

Tim Urban: Inside the...

 Lastly, you can negotiate for more time to prevent work from creeping into your personal life. In business school, I teach students to negotiate for salary but realize I spoke almost nothing about negotiating for more time. What does this look like in practice? You can ask for more time on adjustable deadlines at work.

3 rules for better...

 So I had a very short deadline for a competition. I got a female instructor first, to teach me the female role, the follow, because I wanted to understand the sensitivities and abilities that the follow needed to develop, so I wouldn't have a repeat of college. And then I took an inventory of the characteristics,

Smash fear, learn...

 worked with brian christie one of the world's top authorities on the ivory trade brian investigated the problem for three years and his work was about to be published in a national geographic cover story that added a serious deadline to our work we knew our team had to be out

Episode 1: The Plight of...

 and look, you know these things are important architectural jobs for firms, right? You know, we hire firms to design these things. You can see exactly what went on, three o'clock in the morning at the design meeting. You know, eight hours before deadline,

James Kunstler: How bad...

 minister to extend the deadline to give us more time and which he was very helpful to do so when that I get that deadline I went back to Nortel this and that work cannot sell he said that there

Attracting outside...

 and, occasionally, odd. The conscientious people achieve it through sticking to deadlines, to persevering, as well as having some passion. Extroversion and agreeableness are both conducive

Who are you, really? The...

 deadline as the temperature drops the true value of their painstaking preparations becomes clear thanks to their hydro-engineering know

Beavers in the Snow PIPE...

 New York missed the deadline for naming its electors, and also was not counted. When the votes were tallied, it was unanimous.

Deadline